Choerry's pov
"We got another store that was robbed last night, I'm gonna need you to come down and take a look at it." I hear through the phone. I sigh.
"On my way." I respond, immediately hopping into my car and driving to the store they told me. My partner is unavailable right now, so for now I'll be going by myself to the store. As soon as I get there I hop out and make my way inside.
"What have you got so far?" I ask the officers there.
"Not much actually, they came in, took all the money, and left." An officer responds.
"Anything else happen?" I ask, double checking.
"There was this odd thing that happened actually, we checked the security footage and the robber stopped at the claw machine over there." He points to the corner close to the entrance where a claw machine was. "They used some quarters to get a stuffed animal but when they couldn't get any they broke it and stole 2 animals." I put my hand to my chin, taking in the information and trying to figure out why the robber would do that.
"Could I see the footage?" I ask him, to which he nods, leading me to a room. After closing the door behind me I ask them to play it. At first everything seemed perfectly normal, until about 3 minutes later when a person dressed in all black, with a mask over their face came in, holding a gun. They made everyone lay on the floor, then proceeded to take all the money from the cash registers. As soon as they finished, they made their way to the exit, not before stopping in front of the claw machine. Just like the officer had said previously, they put quarters in and after a few moments, they broke the glass, taking 2 stuffed animals.
"Could you go back a little and zoom in?" I ask, the man at the computer nodding at me and doing as I asked. He zooms in and I squint, trying to figure out what animals they were. A wolf? And something else that I can't make out. Why would they take these specific animals? Do they have a history with them? Many thoughts wandered through my head. I turn my head back to the screen just in time to see the person carving something on the claw machine. I run out the room and make way to the claw machine to see the carving.
H.J
H.J? Why does that sound familiar? I need to check my files.
"I'm gonna head back to my office to try and figure it out. Could you send the footage to me?" I ask the officer, and he gives me an 'ok' sign. I head inside my car, driving to my office. Once I enter after greeting everyone with a smile, I grab a stack of files and immediately get to work. After scanning all the files for an hour my eyes catch a name.
Name: Hyejoo
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Robbery, vandalism, underage drinking, fighting.
Hyejoo was first caught vandalising and only had to stay in a cell overnight at the age of 17, the second time she was caught, was in a fight with other kids around her age. Hyejoo is known to leave H.J wherever she goes, a trademark you could say. I've never seen her before, but I hear about her from my co-workers every now and then. I find it interesting that me and her are the same age, yet in totally different worlds. I stand up to ask the detective that worked on the case of Hyejoo.
"Jinsoul?" I ask my senior Jinsoul.
"Yes Yerim?" She asks me curiously.
"You worked on the Hyejoo case right?" She nods at me.
"Could you help me with this? She robbed a store last night and I wanna know what she's like so I can try and figure out where she is and what her next move is." I step more into her office, sitting myself on the chair in front of her desk.
